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F orest G rove P ress Vo!. FOREST GROVE, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPT. 15, 1910 No. 45 - Chief Lenneville o f the Fire D partment has rebuilt the lad der wagon, making it consider ably larger and adding several new features. The wagon is now eighteen feet long, and forty in ches wide. On top o f the iron framework which supports the ladders, will be placed a wire basket to hold the hats,coats,etc., o f the fire fighters. On each side o f the wagon is a running board on which the laddies will stand when going to a fire. Un der the w agon is a swinging com partment for the buckets and other paraphernalia for fighting fires. Travelers on Way Home Mrs. Homer C. Atwell writes her father, C. V. B. Russel, from Omaha that she and Mr. Atwell will return soon to this city, pro bably reaching here next Thurs day. vt\)iey will stop at Denver, Salt Lake City, and other towns enroute home. Mr. and Mrs. At well have been in the East for the past two months, the former investigating fruit conditions and in attendance as a delegate from Oregon at the Conservation Con gress at St. Paul, and the latter visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. Atwell writes that she pre- fere Oregon dust to coal dust, and Oregon fruit trees to corn stalks. Mr. Atwell gave an address be fore the congress, favoring home rule for natural resources. He believes the people o f the North west are in a far better position to properly conserve its resourses than the federal government, and the income from those resour ses, wdsely conserved and utaliz- ed. should be used in lessening the burden of taxation in the state where the resourses are lo cated. Banquet Tendered to Pioneer Franklin Pierce, of this city, who on Friday last reached the seventy-ninth mile-stone i n L ife’ s journey, was given a ban quet by his children at his home, all the members o f his family be ing present a t the festivities. Mr. Pierce came to Oregon in 1852, and was for many years postmaster a t Greenville. He also conducted a general store there for 25 years. His children are: Charles Pierce, Portland; Mrs.Mary Vollum,Spokane: Mrs. Elsie Cramer, Portland: M r s. Clarrisa Ireland, Greenville, and Mrs. Alice Thomas, Milwaukie. His grandaughter. Mrs. Ethel Rodney, o f Portland, and her young son, were also present. Christian Church Sunday Rev. Jesse Kellems.of Eugene, will occupy the Christian church pulpit in this city, Sunday morn ing and evening. Mr. Kellems, is the son o f Rev. D. C. Kellems, the well-known evangelist, and tho only seventeen years o f age, h e i s a forceful and eloquent speaker, and has held revivals with much success. He supplies the Vancouver Christian church pulpit, and exchanges this com ing Sunday with Rev, Stivers. Pacific University Opens September Twenty-first o f Ohio State University, will oc cupy t h e chair o f mathematics. Professor A. G. DuMez, o f the University o f Wisconsin, will have charge of the chemistry courses; Mr. Charles 0 . Couville, from Salt Lake City, will be the new in structor in athletics. While the outlook for a strong football team is uncertain,a num ber o f last year’s team will be registered this year, and among the new students promising ma terial will doubtless be found. The bi-annual term reception will be given Friday evening, Sept. 23, with appropriate exer. cises. Type-Sticker to Merchant printer’8 ink was in his nostrils, . . • ci L Mr.Russell is known to fame more Afl interesting Sketch thru his connection with the shoe ----------- trade, which he h a s followed Pacific University will open for Several o f Forest Grove’ s busi- since long before the first down the school year 1910-11 Septem ness men in otherlines, were once appeared upon his boyhood cheek, ber the twenty-first. Opening- newspaper publishers, or at least Of his success as a shoe dealer, exercises will be held in the chap worked in printing shops, and it is unnecessary for the P ress to el at ten o ’clock a. in., President among the number who recall sP*?ak, as his sixteen years’ resi- Ferrin presiding. The address to with pleasure those happy days dence and business life in this the students will be given by Rev. when the gathering o f news, city is sufficient testimony in its- William M. Proctor, o f Oregon ‘ ‘sticking it up” , and seeing that City. Special music will be pro the paper was issued ‘ ‘on time” Three important events, which vided for the occasion. furnished about the only interest he has never regretted, have oc- Present indications point to a in life, is C. V. B. Russell, the cured in the life o f C. V. B. In largely increased enrollment over Main street shoe dealer. 1844 he was born; in 1864 he was that o f last year. Reservations Mr. Russell is a printer from mar. ied; in 1894 he came to For- for rooms at Herrick hall, the ’ w ay back, and worked at the bus-1 est Grove, ladies dormitory, practically fill iness before typesetting machin- all the space allotted to rooms,and | es were hardly thought of. In inquiries are being made among [ fact, bets used to be made among the townspeople for boarding stu Miss Nora Christine Emmel, ! the employes at the shop where The city council met in regular dents. This year will open a new daughter o f Mr. and Mrs. C. C. he work d, that no machine would session Tuesday night. All mem era for the University in the way Emmel, of Sherwood, became the \ bers of the official body were pres of new buildings and equipment. bride of Dr. Frederick Hill Thomp- ent except Chief o f Police. Rou The new gymnasium, completed son, Thursday,at the Emmel home | tine business transacted, and bills this year at a cost of twenty-five Mapleview Farm, Rev. Rufus | allowed. C. H. Pratt elected to thousand dollars, offers every ad Thompson, o f Albany, father of! fill vacancy on Library board vantage f o r athletic training, the groom, reading the services caused by expiration of term of having all necessary parapherna- that made the happy couple i L.J.Corl. Oddfellow’s lodge re 1 a for that purpose. The large one. Dr. Grover C. Bellinger of fused permission to move their swimming tank is a feature found Salem wras best man, and the j | building on to their lot at corner in but few college gymnasiums bride was attended by Miss Bon- j of Main street and first avenue in the West. nie Beckley. North. Eva Adams pipe line bill Next spring will be erected on The bride formerly attended1 referred to Mayor and finance the campus, a thirty thousand dol Pacific University, and is well-J committee for settlement. Wm. lar Carnagie L i b r a r y , Y>r known in this city, where she ! Ringle’ s request for tramway for which the funds have been near has many friends. She is a grad moving wood at Power House re ly all raised. Twenty thousand uate o f the College o f Liberal ferred to L. and W. committee, o f dollars will be expended for Arts at Willamette University. \ j Committee appointed to investi new books; these, added to the Dr. Thompson took the scien-1 gate power house site, dismissed. fifteen thousand • volumes now tific course at McMinnville Col The street commissioner was in owned by the college, will give lege, and his Doctor’s degree from j structed to serve legal notice on the school a library second to Willamette University. He is a ever inver,ted to take the place a number of property owners in none in the state. It is said that practicing physican a t Staton, *iari<* setting o f type. Mr. different sections of the city to a new dormitory and science hall where they will make their home. Rnsse!1 was in Belgrade,Me., and was left an orphan at the^ge repair their sidewalks. The agi will be built in the not far distant of ten years, and since that ten tation of the P ress for better future. Dr. W. D. Ferguson, I der age has paddled his own ca sidewalks is bearing fruit. who has been soliciting funds for noe. He moved to Glenwood, n • • n . the use o f the University for thei Iowa, and there, working on the Exciting RunUWdy Monfldy past several months, thruout the i License to wed was granted East, met with much encourage Saturday by the auditor o f Clark Weekly Union, he had his first An exciting runaway occured ment, and results in the way of county, Washington, to Thomas experience in the newspaper large donations will likely be Adrms, a bankei* of Vancouver, work. He yet has a copy of the in t h e business section of town forthcoming soon and Mrs. Eva Beal, of Salem,Ore issue o f that paper on which he Monday afternoon. John, Matt- first worked, dated November 15. hews and Herb WisWell, two loc- Several changes will be noted gon. Mr. Adams made Forest Grove 1857. This paper shows that the al painters, were driving John’s in the faculty this year. Pro fessor Lester B. Shippee, who his home for many years, coming merchants of that day were up to frisky colts to their paint wagon, comes from Providence, R. I., will hereto atte d Pacific Uuiversity date concerning the value o f pub when the animals became fright occupy the chair o f history and ec afterwards being associated in the lic ty thru the press, and adver- ened at an auto standing near the onomics. He received both his rr.erchantile business with James tised in a way that proved satis- Express office, and bolted down graduate and post-graduate de Woods, a pioneer merchant o f this factory to the buying public, the First avenue. Johnnie couldn’t grees from Brow'n University. city, whose daughter, Nellie, he publisher and themselves, not- hold ’ em, and when they got to Professor W. G. Harrington, a wedded. Mrs. Beal was the wid- withstanding that the bank clear- the com er by the free reading graduate of Brown University and ow of John Beal, who died some ances noted in the Weekly Union room and made a quick turndown the Emerson school o f Oratory, years ago, and who was born amounted to only fifteen millions College Way, the wagon bed flew will have charge o f the depart and raised in this section, being o f dollars for the entire United 0ff at a tangent and John and ment o f Public Speaking. Prof the son of Mr. and Mrs. Philip States, hardly more than what Herb hit the turf with a dull,sick- essor Earl D. West, a graduate Beal, who were among Oregon’s Portland can show at the present ening thud. The colts raced as earliest settlers, locating on a time. faijas Aunt A n Smith’s. Aside donation land claim o n e mile Mr. Russell set type and ma- from a few bruises and contus- north of this city. nipulated an old Washington hand ions, and broken wagon lied, no press during the period of his particular damage resulted, first newspaper work, and attri Mrs. Charles Hines entertain butes much o f his p r e s e n t ed a number o f friends Friday , , ... strength to the energy heacquir- afternoon in compliment to Mr. Frank C. Carmack and Miss, , .. .. . . , Miss Frances Myers, who is to Hazel B. Aldrich were united in e(1 thru working the lever of the Mrs. Wilbur McEldowney gave leave here to take up her school marriage Wednesday morning at old time press. After leaving the the first, Friday, in the series o f work in Portland for the coming the home of the bride’s mother. Weekly Union he worked on diff- entertainments of the Five Hund year. The afternoon was pleas- Mrs. W innefred Aldrich, in this erent papers in various states in red Club which will be held dur- city,Rev.Hiram Gould officiating. t u viiHrllp West and did his ently spent playing Five Hund The happy couple left on the 10.30 \ * T j,n ¡ng the season. The affair was red. Mrs. W. B. Haines winning Oregon Electric car for Salem and a8 w” r a , , c ° most enjoyable. Mrs. Mayne J. first prize, and Mrs. John Thorn The Dalles for a honeymoon trip. Miner s Register, Central City, Abbott captured the prize for the Mrs. Carmack has lived in this Colorado, where he set up Presi- burgh winning the consolation highest score. Dainty refresh city for a number o f years, and ‘ dent Lincoln's last message in prize. Lunch was served to the is popular socially. She is a tal- 1865 ¡ n i*#» Mr. Russell pub- ments were served to the club guests, who were; M«sdames E. ented musican and v ^ h s t and ,jghed a of hip own> theIn_ members present, who were; E. Williams. Frank J. Miller. her voice has often been heard at , , K. „ ... . ’ , Mesdames Arthur B. Caples,Clif Gerald Volk, John H Thornburgh, public affairs. For a number o f dependent Monthly,at Glenwood, ford Brown, Frank Gordon, Will B. F. Burlingham, Will B. Haines, years past she has been in the em- Iowa. xho having had much exper- iam Pollock. Releigh Peterson, and A. Hinman, and the Misses ploy o f the local telephone sys- tem. Mr. Carmack is in thecro- ¡ence ^ a new8paper man> and George Paterson, Willis Goff. Staley. Langley. Hinman. Minnie ed°*Milk Company at the local admitting that he even vet grows Philip Kinzer, John Wilson Ma- and Frances Myers. plant, and he and his bride will wistful when he thinks of the hal- crum, Mayne J. Abbott,and Miss ycon days when the smell o f the Josephine Baber. Subscribe for The Press, now. make their home in this city. Former P. U. Student Weils Council in Regular Session Ada ns—Beal In Honor of Miss Myers Carmack—Aldrich Mrs. McEldowney Entertains